UKRAINE UNDER ATTACK

 

Good Monday morning. As you wait for your Starbucks iced latte, bemoan the Dolphins' loss, and try to get to the front of the zoom line for your court case this morning  (court is closed), Ukraine is under a massive missile attack from Russia and their war criminal leader Putin. Missiles are striking Kiev, the capital, as well as multiple civilian centers well away from the front-line battles. This is a war crimes retaliation against innocent civilians for Ukraine blowing up the Crimean bridge and severing a strategic supply line for Russia into the Ukraine territory it has illegally annexed. 

Think of the innocent Ukrainian civilians today as you muddle through your pedantic business. 

ROOTS OF WAR

"Men who are free to produce have no incentive to loot; they have nothing to gain by war and a great deal to lose."

Ayn Rand, "The Roots Of War", Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal, 1966. 

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND

UPDATE 1 OF 2

Miami's own Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been nominated to write minority dissents as a justice on the United States Supreme Court (Motto: "Never political, always to the right."). Republicans called her the second coming of Marx (Karl not Harpo) and a radical left leaning judge who advocates the use of Sharia law and participates in pizza/child porn parties with other Washington left elitists. 

Judge Brown-Jackson will be the first former federal public defender to serve on the bench. While Justice Marshall was a renown criminal defense attorney, we don't think he was a Federal PD. 

UPDATE 2 OF 2 

Miami's Mayor ends mask mandates. NO MORE MASKS IN COURT. Feel free to go to court and get Covid. 

If you received vaccines and a booster you can try and get those reversed. Covid was a big misunderstanding, we apologize for the inconvenience. Go about your business and feel free to sneeze on one another. 

On a positive note, more people dying of Covid means less cars on the road. Less traffic. Less carbon emissions. Everyone (who survives) wins. 

You want to know who Rumpole is? We will be the last person on earth wearing a mask. That's who we are. 

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND

As war rages in Ukraine, we are reminded of the words of King George VI, as London and all of England fell under attack of the Nazi Luftwaffe in the fall of 1940.  As the Blitz intensified, King George VI and Queen Elisabeth walked daily through the wreckage of London, talking with the subjects. 

But though bowed, the British remained unbroken, and in the process stood alone against the evil of the last century.  Their courage as they stood alone reminds us of the power of the human spirit. Evil and aggression will not prevail. 

"As in London so throughout Great Britain buildings rich in beauty and historic interest may be wantonly attacked and humble homes no less dear and familiar may be destroyed. "But 'there'll always be an England' to stand before the world as a symbol and a citadel of freedom."

King George VI

It's a spring weekend. Enjoy it until summer and humidity arrives in a few days.